Job 3:3

“Let the day perish in which I am born, || And the night that has said: A man-child has been conceived.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

In Context

2And Job answers and says:

4That day—let it be darkness, || Do not let God require it from above, || Nor let light shine on it.

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Cross References

Job 10:18And why from the womb || Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, || The day that my mother bore me, || Let it not be blessed!

Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11

Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →

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